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On Saturday 22 October 2005 13:04, Joel Palmius wrote:
> I've now played around a bit more with different ways of booting UML, and
> I've successfully booted with root both on hostfs and on nfs.
> For practical reasons, the hostfs approach seems to require less arcane
> configuration options, but on the other hand, the nfs approach doesn't
> require running as root in order to have different users.
> Any further thoughts on the relative pros and cons of the different
> approaches?
Speed: nfs
Stability: nfs
Running a UML as root: I always keep forgetting to detect the situation and
add a "Insult_user_for_this()!" call. Btw, a process running as root can't
even be chrooted (see man 2 chroot).
IOW, call it "unsupported configuration".
We'll have humfs soon, we hope, which voids the requirement "running as root",
but not yet. However, there are the patches on Jeff Dike's incrementals page.
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I've now played around a bit more with different ways of booting UML, and
I've successfully booted with root both on hostfs and on nfs.
For practical reasons, the hostfs approach seems to require less arcane
configuration options, but on the other hand, the nfs approach doesn't
require running as root in order to have different users.
Any further thoughts on the relative pros and cons of the different
approaches?
// Joel